Finnish Public Administration Nordic Public Space and Agency
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of public administration in Finland. Many of the basic structures of Finnish public administration have remained intact during the country’s relatively short independence of 100 years, but Finland has been able to tackle major turbulence ranging from wars...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Governance and Public Management
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1: Introduction to Nordic public administration
- Part 1: Structures and Space
- 2: Defining polity: Finnish politico-administrative system
- 3: City-regionalization, local democracy and civic participation
- 4: Government of government: How and by whom the government is governed?- 5: Local government and autonomy
- 6: Constructing the Finnish constitutional doctrine on regional self-government
- 7: Public financial management: budgeting and accountability
- 8:Performance management in the Finnish government: reflections and future directions from the perspectives of hybridity and sustainability
- 9: Public service systems: meaningful public service
- Part 2: Process and actors
- 10: Social and health care policy: taming complexities?- 11: Nordic environmental state in the making? The difficult transformation to sustainable practices
- 12: Higher education policy: accountable academia
- 13: Landscapes of knowledge production. education policy and diminishing inequality
- 14: Comprehensive governance of security
- 15: Human rights policy and Finnish human rights architecture
- 16: Innovation policy in Finland: from the limelight to distress to a search for new avenues
- 17: Reflections: Finnish public management as a Nordic system